Week 11 By Conor Brennan

This was the final week before the end of the first semester. In the labs, we made another prototype using stock footage. Being able to use stock footage was great because we could show what our project is aiming towards. This prototype was edited in a more professional standard because we all edited it together at the same time. The footage was more varied and included better text animations.
 It also gave us the chance to receive more feedback from other students. Our group met with Mark and Katerine for a short meeting. We showed them our progress and discussed the projects next steps.

Going forward we would like to set up social media accounts to help spread our message. Having social media accounts for Project Chronos will come in useful for finding people to possibly film with. Our goal over the break is to get into contact with more people and film.

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